Rocco Shares Some Work by Grez

Our previous post featured a tattoo I spotted on Cristine at the Mermaid Parade back in June. Cristine's brother Rocco was also in attendance, and he was kind enough to share this piece on his inner left arm:

Rocco credited this to Grez at Kings Avenue Tattoo. He did this out on Long Island in the Massapequa shop, but now works out of their Manhattan shop on the Bowery. Grez's work has been seen several times before on Tattoosday, including most recently here and here. You can also clcik on "Grez" in the tags at the bottom of the post to see more of his work that's been on the site.

Thanks to Rocco for sharing this great tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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from: Brian T. 
to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com" 
date: Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 2:27 PM 
subject: Trust in God Tattoo? 

My brother in law thinks this says "trust in God". Can you confirm this? 

Thanks

 
神 typically is used to describe deity, not necessarily the Judea-Christian sense of "God", which is 上帝.

信用 is not "trust", rather creditworthiness along the line of trying to get a loan from bank.

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Cristine's 311 Tattoo

Back in June, I met Cristine out on Coney Island, during the Mermaid Parade.

She shared this tattoo:

Christine is a big fan of the band 311, so this was her tribute to the band she loves. Here's a closer look:

This was done by Miss D'Jo at Lark Tattoo in Westbury, New York. We've been lucky enough to have shared work by Miss D'Jo previously on Tattoosday here and here.

Thanks to Cristine for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Triskel

Off course this brooch is designed along the early medieval nortern european styles, 925 Sterling silver solid, more informations at : faust.jewellery@gmx.com

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solen er tilbage

The first set of the Samhain shots by Christina, much more body art photography here: h2fotografie.blogspot.com

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Catching Up with Tattoo Age: Thom DeVita (and a Valerie Vargas/Lal Hardy Bonus)

It has been a little while since we checked in with the good people at Vice and enjoyed one of their Tattoo Age documentaries. Earlier this week, they dropped the first part of their five(!)-part series on Thom DeVita.
Check it out here:


Before this segment was released, the good folks over at Vice gave us a little bonus footage from their Valerie Vargas episodes, which appeared earlier this fall. In this short clip,Valerie and Stewart Robson visit with British tattooing legend Lal Hardy. Here's the clip:

 

I'm looking forward to more on the DeVita series in weeks to come!

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Hammer " Ragnarök"

This pendant sows Thor´s last battle at Ragnarök, Thor hits the Midgardserpent on the head and it bites him in her last gasp, so they both die.

More information: faust.jewellery@gmx.net

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Hammer "Midgard"

I wrote the story before :) Just wanted to show the different versions of that beautiful piece, big silver for the boys, small silver for the girls and the big bronze for...

More information : faust.jewellery@gmx.net

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JOHNNY RACKS.

Here is the look at the hand shoot of the homie Johnny Racks.

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Tattoo Cewek di Belakang Badan

 

Tattoo cewek di backside

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Death of Bonifatius

 Information about jewellery: faust.jewellery@gmx.net

sketch for the pendant

This Pendant shows the death of Bonifatius, the Missionar, that brought Christianity to the frankish empire with the desecration of the sacred pagan places, he cut down Donar´s Oak, the central holy tree and was killed by heathen people in Dokkum 754.
 History tells us how the one slaying him was so furious, that he split the bible, that bonifatius used to protect his head, and Bonifat´head in one blow.

Therefore you can see bonifatius kneeling with his bible in his hand and a man standing over him swinging the axe.

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strenght

As many people, also this man wished to have some power animals on his skin.

The rune inscript says STRENGHT and we can see a stingray, a bear and a rhino, all interwoven on his arm, he says, his kids love the bear most.

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Man on a quest

Here we have another man on a quest, that travelled all the way from the north of sweden to get the wished symbols on his skin.

What we see here is the tree of life with Hugin and Munin woven in the so called Vendel style in the branches, the leaves are in speartip shape, a hommage to the highest god, Odin.

Furthermore is Lokis mask in the trunk, the bearer named his first son Loki.

In the roots we see the three Nornes, Urd, Verdandi and Skuld, depicted in the Oseberg style or Gripping Beast style.

The whole design has the shape of a Thors Hammer.

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Little big dragon

A nordic dragonsnake, among the small ones a big one, among the big ones a small one, the tree of life is made by Colin Dale, the Thor Hammer by Erik Reime.

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some ink...

 nice and simple, some butterflies, symbol for air and transformation...

 ...detail of a big dragon, the foot...

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LANDLOCKED APPAREL

lydia from landlockedapparel.com/ send us an email today worrying about her electricity bill.

help her out and buy some of her very nice clothes form melbourne, australia and say hi from us.

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INKARNATION . A BOOK BY ZEIXS

today we want to introduce to you another great book about the stuff that makes us tick.

another book: this time by zeixs and not yet released. from what

 we can tell by now this book approaches the tattoo culture a little 

different from the one that has been released by gestalten verlag. 

still a must have we guess.

you can preorder the book here: http://www.inkarnation.zeixs.com/PRE-ORDER-NOW-1

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from: JK
to: "tiangotlost@gmail.com"
date: Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:09 PM
subject: Tattoo meaning if any?

I got this tattoo 17 years ago in NYC. Tattoos were not totally legal in the city yet and I was underage. Internet was not in full swing either. The tattoos were supposed to have read, "Strength and Courage." I'm sure they don't. LoL! If you could tell me what the characters mean (if anything), I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

JKreasy



小畜 "little animal" and 大過 "big mistake".

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WB

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Shana's Orange Tattoo - More Than Meets the Eye

I met Shana on the subway back in June. She shared this tattoo:

Shana explained that this is a navel orange from a botanical etching dating back to the 1700's. He explained that he found the illustration in a botanical text book.

Shana further elaborated by explaining that she associates oranges with times that she felt calm and safe and that, among the "thirteen-ish" tattoos, many are different versions of oranges and orange blossoms.

Furthermore, Shana identifies as a transgender individual, and he intimated that the oranges and accompanying blossoms balance out the masculine elements in his appearance.

This was inked by Jason McAfee at Temple Tattoo in Oakland, California.

One may have noted that I used both masculine and feminine pronouns when writing about Shana. I took my cues from Shana's biography on her website:

"Her visual art has been shown at The New York Center for Book Arts and Southern Exposure and is in the collections of the Walker Art Center and the University of California, Irvine, University of California, Berkeley, and University of Southern California libraries’ special collections.  His essays have appeared in Flow Magazine (flowtv.org) and Clamor Magazine, and she contributed a chapter addressing the role of the prison industrial complex in Hurricane Katrina inThrough the Eye of Katrina: Social Justice in the United States, published by Carolina Academic Press.  [Shana] has given talks on transgender representation and deconstructing “hate crime” in queer politics at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City University of New York, Yale University, and Oberlin College.  She is also a long-time member of Critical Resistance, a grassroots organization fighting the use of the prison industrial complex to address social problems."

Thanks to Shana for sharing this fascinating tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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JAMES.

I have been working really hard in and out of the shop lately and put my blog to the side for a minute...But here I am, and ready to keep you guys posted with some new work and other goodies that I think you will enjoy. Here is a progress report into my man James's sleeve. I Hope you guys enjoy to see it as much i enjoyed doing it. Thanks for the love and support.

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Sarah's Thighmond

Back in August, I met Sarah on the West 4th Street subway platform in Manhattan.

Sarah had eight tattoos at the time of our encounter, and she was kind enough to share this one, on her right thigh:

Sarah told me that she drew this up herself and that a freelance artist in Vermont named Jonas Fricke tattooed her.

Thanks to Sarah for sharing this cool tattoo, which I have dubbed a "thighmond," here on Tattoosday!

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Sean's Rubber Ducky, Down to the Bones

I met Sean back in June at the 5th Avenue Street Fair in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn.

My wife, Melanie, had been wanting me to meet him, as he is the husband of a co-worker. He has a dozen tattoos and shared this, which has extra special meaning:

The tattoo on his ribs commemorates how Sean proposed to his wife Linda.

Sean explained, "I tied a ring with a ribbon around the neck of the ducky ... she thought I was running a bubble bath for her and I dropped the rubber ducky with the ring in the bathtub."

And why is it a skeleton duck? It represents "the depth of our relationship ... down to the bones...".

This happy couple met online. Sean is from Alberta, Canada, and they had a long-distance relationship for three years. He commemorated the proposal with this tattoo he had done by an artist in Alberta.

Thanks to Sean for sharing this cool tattoo with us here on Tattoosday!

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Re-Post: Happy Birthday, Mr. Vonnegut!

Happy Birthday, Mr. Vonnegut! 

Social media reminds me that today would be Kurt Vonnegut's 90th birthday. 

It's also Veteran's Day and, since Vonnegut wrote one of the great war novels of all time, Slaughterhouse Five, it seemed appropriate to re-post this classic Vonnegut tattoo. You can see all of the Vonnegut tattoos that have appeared on Tattoosday here. 

Enjoy this Tattoosday classic:


At the Seventh Avenue Street Fair in Park Slope on Sunday, there was plenty of ink. Amazing ink too. But I only stopped one person, Samantha.

Samantha had this simple quote from the late Kurt Vonnegut on her back. This simple refrain (used 106 times in Slaughterhouse-Five, according to Wikipedia), came to be synonymous with the Vonnegut philosophy.

Samantha had this inked on her birthday at Hypnotic Designs in Sunset Park by Dru. Her boyfriend Igor also had a Vonnegut quote inked, but on his left leg:


or, from a different view:


This quote is from God Bless You Dr. Kevorkian...

My epitaph in any case? "Everything was beautiful. Nothing hurt." I will have gotten off so light, whatever the heck it is that was going on.

Thanks to Samantha and Igor for sharing their Vonnegutian ink here on Tattoosday!

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TWOLADIESONEGUY

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